Personal Protest: An Open Call, Gallery Show

For Super Secret Projects, art = community.

As an artist-run gallery, we aim to create exhibits that are innovative and that gives a place for artists to experiement and create a space for artists to meet and share.

As we grow as a collective, we find ourselves yearning to give as many opportunities to our fellow artists in the community as possible. This is why we are calling for more community art to fill our walls with the theme: Personal Protest.

Personal Protest is an open call to artists of all disciplines to explore the nature of protest beyond its utility as a political act, but as a personal interrogation of our reaction and resistance to the moral, practical, and spiritual conditions that challenge our personal values.

You will find more information about the theme, important info and submission form below.

-SUBMISSION FORM BELOW-

  • Personal Protest an open call to artists of all disciplines to explore the nature of protest beyond its utility as a political act, but as a personal interrogation of our reaction and resistance to the moral, practical, and spiritual conditions that challenge our personal values.

    Can protest exist without political implications, or is the political inherently  personal? Is protest a fundamental aspect of human nature, or an evolutionary response to modern pressures? The things we defend against shape who we are, and by reframing acts of resistance, we can view them as tools for radical self-actualization. Ultimately, the creation of art can stand as a form of protest—a powerful expression of our core humanity that defies instrumentalization and asserts our intrinsic freedom.

  • Important Dates :

    • Submission Deadline: SEPTEMBER 5TH

    • Decision Notification: Rolling

    • Exhibition Dates: September 14th to October 5th 

    • Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14th, 6-9PM

    • Accepted work must be dropped off by September 10th
      all work selected work must be dropped off at our gallery + ready to hang.

    Submission Details

    • ACCEPTED MEDIUMS: All Mediums, including performance work.

    • Works will be accepted on a piece-by-piece basis. If you apply with more than one piece, we may accept one piece and not another.

    • ACCEPTED PIECES MUST BE READY TO HANG AT DROP OFF

    • SUBMISSION FEE: $15 for 1 submission, $20 for 2 submissions, $25 for 3 submissions  

    • Works will be accepted on a piece-by-piece basis. If you apply with more than one piece, we may accept one piece and not another.

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Beacon Arts is a fiscal sponsor of Super Secret Projects.

BeaconArts is dedicated in helping and facilitating creative programs through fiscally sponsored projects.

Meet Your Curators

Black and white portrait of a woman with wavy hair, looking directly at the camera, with a wooden background.

  • Diana Vidal is a curator, director, and founder of Super Secret Projects; along with a core mission to empower emerging and mid-career artists, Diana & co-director Allegra Jordan aim to weave the arts into the fabric of Beacon through community-centric events like Artist Social Nights.

    Diana's is a multi-media artist whose curatorial work and art pieces have been showcased at galleries including Transmitter Gallery in Brooklyn, Beacon Artist Union, Garrison Art Center, Site:Brooklyn and Super Secret Projects.

A young woman with shoulder-length hair sits on a chair, looking at the camera with a slight smile. She is indoors, with a painting on the wall behind her and a closet with open doors to her left.

  • Allegra Jordan serves as a co-director + Gallery Coordinator. She is a Beacon based oil painter and began painting with oil in 2013. This is a medium which she felt gave her the means to express free emotion within texture and movement. Her work focuses on the realities of young parenthood, grief, and maturing during late stage capitalism.